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Chapter 4: A New Mission From Cid
I plunged into the water again but it seemed colder then the last time. I instantly spotted Rikku and started swimming down towards her, damn this waters cold, I better hurry or I'll freeze I thought on the way down. As I got closer I noticed that Rikku was awake but a rope attached to the cargo was dragging her down with it. When I got close enough Rikku outstreched her hand asking me to help her. I reached out and grabed her hand but even with both of us swiming up together we couldn't even slow down our decent. I pulled myself down to Rikku and drew my sword. I looked Rikku right in the eye but she looked scared, I smiled and then cut the rope a few feet below her. When I looked back at Rikku she was no longer conscious. I better get her to the surface quickly I thought dragging Rikku up to the surface as quickly as I could. As soon as Rikku and me reached the surface Brother and the other Al Bhed lowered the rope ladder again. I swam over and managed to get Rikku over my shoulder as I climbed the ladder. It was difficult since my limbs had begun to grow numb from the cold water, and plus I had to carry Rikku who wasn't all that heavy but everything is twice as hard when your as cold as I was then. When I finally reached the top of the ladder I was greeted with them taking Rikku wraping her in a blanket and bringing her below deck, probably to a warm bed. Then Brother walked over and gave me a blanket, which I happily took and wrapped myself in, and then he gave me a nod which I guessed was his way of thanking me for saving his sister.
I decided to go try and find Rikku's room to see if she was okay. I went below deck and walked down the hall till I saw the two Al Bhed that had carried Rikku to her room. They obviously knew where I was heading since they pointed to an open door a little ways down the hall to my right. "Dryhgc," I said and they noded. I went down the hall and into the room. I saw Rikku lying in a rather nice bed, for a boat I mean. I walked over to a chair right next to the bed and continued to try and warm myself up. I was begining to doze off when Rikku started mumble something in her sleep. I wonder if I can get her to tell me anything I thought remembering that sometimes if u ask someone something when they are sleeping. I leaned a little closer and whispered rather quietly, "Rikku why were you clinging to my arm?" She mumbled something inaudible then she said rather quietly, "I was clinging to you because..." she stopped briefly then almost yelled knock ing me back off my chair, "I'll tell you when I feel like it!" I groaned in pain. "You big meanie, I said I'd tell you later," she said in a loud voice. I laughed, "Well sorry but I'm kinda impatient." Then the whole ship jolted. I had been trying to stand back up at the time and got thrown backwards into the wall, but Rikku was perfectly fine, somehow she had avoided being moved at all.
I layed there for a minute then asked, "What was that," Rikku sat there for a minute then had an angry look on her face. She jumped out of bed and ran towards the door yelling, "Brother," but I jumped up in front of the door and stopped her. "Hey, get back in bed you almost froze to death, you shouldn't be up," I said in my defense. She looked at me with that some anger still in her eyes for a minute, wow Rikku can get scary when she's mad I thought as her anger turned into a smile. "Okay," she said rather happily and walked back over to the bed. I was shocked that she gave in so eaisly but then she said, "but I'm not staying here long, as soon as I'm warm I'm getting up." I smiled, nodded and then said, "I'll be up on deck if you need me," and then walked out of her room, down the hall and up on deck. Then I realized that I had dropped the blanket I had in Rikku's room, but I decided against going to get it. Then I noticed that we were sailing back in the direction we had come from but a lot slower now, I guess Rikku was mad that they had already picked up the airship and started moving. Then again we had gotten here pretty fast so I figured we would probably reach Home by this evening as long as we didn't run into any major problems. Just then I remembered that I hadn't picked up the stuff that I had hid. I went over to pick it up but the Dictionary had gone missing. Well, I hadn't needed it yet so I guess it really doesn't matter I thought grabing all my stuff. I put all of it except the camera, which I put in a pocket on my right leg, in my kimono. Then as I put the camera back in my pocket I felt something else, oh yea that thing the octopus fiend dropped I thought as I pulled it out and took a closre look.
It looked sort of like a sphere but a lot smaller closer toa marble's size. It had a reddish orange glow that reminded me of fire. I thought to myself for a minute let me see what can I use this for, ahh I've got a hunch. I reached for the hilt of my blade and pulled it out. I looked over the balde carefully, it really didn't look all that special but then I noticed that on the golden metal piece on the very edge of the hilt there was a small rounded hole that looked about the size of the marble. I brought the marble up right next to the hole, it looked like it would fit, so I put it in the hole. It was a perfect fit, the blade gave off a bright flash of light, "Ack, my eyes," I yelled out in pain. When I regained enough vision to see my blade again I noticed that the blade had a flame pattern on it that glowed just like the marble. Oh, awesome man, so I guess I use the marble to give my blade some elemental power I thought sitting there gawking at the sword for a while. Then I decided to put it back in it's sheath. I got up and walked back over to the railing where I had be leaning before we picked up Tidus (a.k.a. sunuh) and started thinking again.
I wonder what my parents are doing right now? Probably wondering where the heck I am, unless time is still at a stand still. Will I be able to go home? Will I even want to if I ever get the chance? I continued asking myself questions that I could never possibly answer myself until I felt someone tapped me on the shoulder. I turned to see who it was but of course the person had tricked me by standing on the oppiste side they had tapped. I continued turning till I saw Rikku but the instant I was fully facing her she jumped forward and started hugging me. "Ack, what the..." I said blushing. She then let go of me looking strangley satisfied. "Umm," I said completely clueless at what had just happened. Then Rikku held up my camera and asked, "So what's thing?" I looked at my pocket and then back to the camera in Rikku's hand astonished that she stole it so eaisly, but then I realized how she got it so eaisly. "Cheater, give me that back," I said making a grab for the camera but Rikku just pulled it back out of my reach. "I didn't cheat," she said innocently. "Yes you did, you hugged me which startled me therefore dulling my senses," I quickly replied. "Well, what is it," she reiterated. I sighed, "It's called a camera," I said then making a full out dive to get it back. Rikku made a small step to the side and avoided me, I landed a few feet behind her now extremely frustrated. "If you tell me what this does I might give it back," she said holding the cameraabove my head. I snatched it away and said, "Better yet, I'll show you." I turned on the camera opened up the side so I could see what i was gonna take a picture of, pointed it at Rikku who was looking extremly curious now and snapped a photo. The flash startled Rikku and she jumped. I laughed and told her to look and showed her the picture I had just taken. "Hey cool," she said as I jumped back to my feet, saved the picture and put the camera into my pocket.
Me and Rikku stood on deck leaning on the rail the whole way back to Home, well just the island that it was on anyways. Rikku and me got off the boat last. "Argh, I'm starving," I said as my stomach clenched in empty pain. Rikku giggled and said, "Follow me," dragging me towards Home but then she slowed down. She turned to face me, "Chris, I have to ask you something," she said in a hushed voice. I was going to listen very intently but then I noticed something underneath our feet. I stared wondering why I had this strange feeling that we were in extreme danger. Out of pure instinct I shoved Rikku to the side yelling, "Watch out," as I did so. Then just as Rikku hit the ground a few feet away something that reminded me of a venus fly trap except with four sides instead of two came out of the sand right beneath me and closed itself up. Everything was dark, I was still alive though, I could hear myself breathing. "Yea, no, did you really think that you were gonna get away with eating me," I said angrily drawing my sword which was now glowing ten times as bright and lit up the inside of the creature. I felt a burning sensation run throughout my entire body. Is this an overdrive or something I thought I answerred my own question when I swung my sword in one complete circle around myself and a huge tornado of fire appeared inside the creature. Then as it got larger and larger the creature let out a screech of pain and opened its "mouth" and I quickly leapt out suddenly feeling exhausted. I landed back on the sand right next to Rikku, who was now almost in tears, and fell down on to one knee since I was to tired to stand. Wow, that was really cool and all but it took a whole lot out of me I thought still not attempting to stand up completely. "You big meany, you... you had me worried you know," Rikku sobbed. I smiled, "So you were worried about me," I asked Rikku now looking shocked and blushing. I let out a hardy laugh. "What," she snapped at me. "Your blushing," I replied still laughing. Rikku now turned completely red, I couldn't tell if she was embarrassed, angry or both but for some reason I found this funny and laughed even harder yet. Then I heard Rikku start laughing too.
Once me and Rikku had stopped laughing and managed to reach Home, me with a little help from Rikku since I still coudn't walk perfectly, we went inside and went straight for the kitchen. Just outside the kitchen there was what looked like a large eating area with a lot of tables and chairs. "Wait here," Rikku said letting me down on a chair by one of the tables, "While I go whip up a batch of my very special dish." I watched her go into the kitchen and waited at that table for several minutes when I saw Cid come into the room and look around. He spotted me and made a beeline straight for me. Ugh now I'm gonna have to have an extensive conversation in Al Bhed, joy I thought just as Cid reached the table. "Hey kid," he said, D'oh I forgot Cid could speak English. "Hey," I said, "I was looking for you, Brother told me evrything that happened on the mission," he paused for a short breath, "I want to thank you for saving Rikku when she was pulled over board by that cargo," he finished. I laughed a little, "No need to thank me, I was doing what I felt I had to do," I replied. He nodded and then said, "That's not all," another short breath and then he continued, "I'm sending you and Rikku on another mission in two days, and no I haven't told Rikku yet." I just stared at him for a minute, "So your telling me before you tell your own daughter," I asked, actually wondering this while I asked it. "Yes, but I have my reasons," he stopped, Rikku had come out of the kitchen holding two bowls of a steaming substance, "meet me back here in one hour," he finished walking away. I looked at my watch it was 4:00 PM so that meant I had to be back here at five.
Rikku came over, put down the bowls and and sat down. She looked at me and asked, "Was that pops." I nodded and and said, "Yea me and him were just talking." Rikku looked like she was going to ask something then she kinf of shrugged it off and said, "Here, try some," pushing the steaming bowl of what, I now noticed, looked almost like some form of pasta. I grabbbed one of the forks Rikku had brought with her, picked up some of the stuff with it and put it in my mouth. I sat there chewing for a minute and after I swallowed I said, "Wow this is really good," she smirked, Uh-oh why is she smirking, I looked down at the pasta, there didn't seem to be anything wrong with it. Then I noticed something, but not in the pasta, in my mouth, it was really spicy. "Ahh, ack, hot hot, burning," I said as I took more of the pasta and ate it, surprisingly it extinguished the heat in my mouth. I see it has a spicy aftertaste, I thought my mouth being to full to say anything. Then I realized that I had just stuffed the rest of the bowl into my mouth. I sat there trying to down every last bit since it was good and already in my mouth anyways, but Rikku was nice enough to go get a glass of water for both of us before I finished. "Thanks," I said grabing the glass as soon as I had swallowed the last bit. I chugged the glass and still felt a bit of the after taste but it was nowhere near the first time. I let the taste die and then asked, Wwhat was that?" Rikku giggled, "It's a secret recipe that I made myself, you like it," she asked. I nodded, "Yea, it's really good, the after taste is a little strong but I don't mind spicy food." I waited for Rikku to finish her food talking with her about nothing really specific.
It was only 4:30 now so Rikku gave me the grand tour, except for a few rooms, which she wouldn't let me see. When she had finished the tour. "Oh wow, I gotta go talk to Cid, he said to meet him in an hour," I said running off. Rikku stuck out her hand as if to tell me to wait but before she could say anything I was gone. I ran back to the eating room and went in just as my watch beeped to indicate it was five. Enough out of you, your not gonna ruin my stealth anymore I thought turning off the hourly beep on my watch. Cid then walked up behind me and gave me a scare, "Boo," he said roaring with laughter at my jump. He then told me that the reason he wanted to talk to me again was to show me the machina he was going to let me use on the mission.
We entered a room that looked like a huge hanger or factory of some sort, it was colossal. Right in the center of the room was a large machina, about ten times biger then a human. Cid brought me over to it and told me to try it out. I got in, whoa this looks complicated. Indeed it was complicated, it took me a few hours to figure out the controls, but once I got the hang of them they really weren't that bad. When I had finally finished up, I opened up the cockpit and hopped out. Cid came over, "Good job kid, now I'm gonna brief you on the details of the mission." When he had finally finished I thought to myself, so I get to help Rikku kidnap Yuna, more as a confirmation then a question. After that Cid dismissed me and I headed straight for my room hoping that I wouldn't run into Rikku along the way. Unfortunately though, lady luck was not on my side today. Rikku was waiting for me right in front of my room, looking extremly aggravated.
"Where have you been," she literaly screamed in my ear. Not wanting to deal with an angry Rikku I simply told her in a calm voice, "Go ask Cid." She stormed off in the direction of Cid's office. I let out a sigh of relief, went into my room, locked the door behid me and fell onto my bed. The instant I touched the bed, I drifted off to sleep.
YAY finally done Chapter four. Now I have to go do homework, so I may not update for a while. Plus I'm starting to get writers block.
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